OpenAI Shelves AI Classifier for “Low Rate of Accuracy”

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OpenAI has announced that its AI classifier, a project meant to help readers distinguish between human-written and AI-generated text, is no longer available due to its low rate of accuracy. "In our evaluations on a 'challenge set' of English texts, our classifier correctly identifies 26% of AI-written text (true positives) as 'likely AI-written,' while incorrectly labeling human-written text as AI-written 9% of the time (false positives)," OpenAI explained in its original post, which included six limitations that implied the classifier was never going to be fully reliable to begin with. OpenAI says that it is looking at feedback to create a better alternative, alongside other classifiers for determining whether audio or images are AI-generated.

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